August 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 27. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1882


are spruce poles, used principally for bean poles, also for making weirs, and occasion- ally for fancy fences, arbors and other rustic work. They are brought upon the decks of schooners from Ellsworth, Maine, and are cut during the winter in swampy places, so that the ground must be frozen hard to reach them. For some forty years the headquar- ters of these poles has been at the Eastern packet pier, and some 1,500 dozen are sold each spring season. The demand of course depends upon the run of the taste of people, and as many as 2,500 to 3,000 dozen have been sold. The price for ordinary lots is 35 to 40 cents, with larger lots at 20 cents. Spruce poles, used for light masts for boats and vessels, boat hooks and broom-handles, and a hundred and one other things, are also brought from Ellsworth, Maine, and range from $10 to $30 per 100.


Page 283-284. OUR FISHERIES The Census Bureau has just issued a


bulletin containing a summary of the statis- tics of the sea fi sheries of Maine, prepared by R. Edward Earll, special agent of the Fish Commission. In his letter transmitting the statistics to Professor Goode, special agent in charge of the fi shery investigation, Mr. Earll says: From an examination of the tables, it is found that, if the oyster industry be neglected, Maine ranks second only to Massachusetts in the extent and value of her sea fi sheries. The following fi gures show the extent of the fi shing interests of the State, in so far as they relate to the sea fi sheries: Persons employed, 11,071; vessels employed, 606; tonnage of same, 1,763,265; fi shing boats 590; capital dependent on the fi shery industries, $3,375,994; pounds of sea products as they come from the water, 202,048,449; value of sea products as they come from the water, $1,790,849; pounds of sea products after being prepared for the market, 116,122,048; enhancement of value in process of preparation, $1,823,329; value of sea products in marketable condition, $3,614,178. A similar statement for the river fi sh-


eries, as shown by Mr. Atkins, would be: Persons employed, 1591; capital dependent, $78,308; pounds of fi sh as they come from the water, 4,730,244; pounds of fi sh in mar- ketable condition, 3,749,180; value of river products as sold, 125,046. By combining the tables of sea and river fi sheries we have the following totals for the fi shery interests


of the State: Persons employed, 12,662; capital invested, $3,454,302; pounds of fi sh- ery products as they come from the water, 206,778,693; pounds of fi shery products in marketable condition, 119,916,228; value of fi shery products in marketable condition, $3,739,224. The following arrangement represents the sea fi sheries according to their value: Herring fi shery (including sar- dines), $1,043,722; mackerel, $659,304; cod, $656,753; lobster, $412,076; hake, $278,336; haddock, $225,393. The 12,662 persons are all that can be


considered as actually engaged in the fi sh- eries or in preparation of fi shery products, and hence are the only ones included in the tables, but, in addition, a large number are engaged in transporting the products to the larger markets, in building and repairing fi shing vessels, making and repairing sails, manufacturing boxes, barrels and cans for packing the catch. This class should be con- sidered if we are to have a correct impression of the fi shing interests of the State. A rough estimate would place the number of people employed in this way at 3,500, making a total of over 15,000 directly and indirectly engaged in the work. Assuming that 9,000 of these have families averaging 4 persons (a wife and three children) depending on them, and that three thousand of the remainder are persons largely dependent upon their own resources, we have a total of 48,000 people, equal to about 7½ percent of the total pop- ulation of the State, deriving a considerable portion of their support from the fi shery industries. It should not be forgotten, however, that


many of the fi shermen mentioned above are not wholly dependent upon the fi sheries for a livelihood. Some of them have small farms, from which they derive a considerable in- come while others “ship” on the coasting vessels or fi nd employment as mechanics or laborers on shore during those months when the fi sheries cannot be advantageously prosecuted. This is especially true of the river fi shermen, who, as a rule, fi sh only for a few weeks or months during the height of the season, after which they return to their farms or their shops.


Page 284. HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS Thirty-fi ve summer cottages have been built at Bar Harbor since August last. * * * * *


The Bay View House, Wells Beach, is


FOR SALE at THE LANDING SCHOOL ALDEN 21


YANKEE TENDER ARUNDEL 19


to be managed the coming season by Charles M. Jones, of Great Falls, New Hampshire. * * * * * The Ottawa House, Cushing’s Island,


Portland Harbor, will be managed the com- ing season by C. V. Quick, who fi lled the position of clerk at the same hotel during last summer.


* * * * * The Pepperell Hotel, Kittery Point, is


built upon a part of the estate of Sir William Pepperell, hero of the siege of Louisburg. The mansion built by the widow of the bar- onet, and the family tomb, are both near the hotel.


* * * * * C. B. Brown, a well-known builder of


this city, has contracted to build two sum- mer cottages at South Hancock for Isaac M. Bragg, Esq., and will build another at Islesboro. These will be commenced imme- diately. A half-dozen other cottages will be built at Islesboro this season.


12 May Page 297.


EASTERN INDUSTRIES Some sixty persons are now employed


at the lobster-canning factory at Round Pond, Bristol.


* * * * * Messrs. Lawrence & Dodge are running


their sardine factory at Lubec on full time, giving employment to some 200 hands. The other factories were expected to start up the present week.


* * * * * Launched Saturday from the yard of


John Pascal of Rockport, for Carleton, Norwood & Company, a fi ne barkentine named ADDIE MORRILL, of 650 tons, commanded by Captain Adelbert Andrews of Rockport.


* * * * * R. W. Lord & Company, Kennebunk,


are putting new machinery into their twine mill, which will materially increase its ca- pacity. This fi rm does a large business in fi sh and net twine, and have large facilities for manufacturing the same. * * * * *


Four or fi ve granite quarries are in full


operation in the town of Franklin, one vessel is building, a large store and dwelling house is being erected and others are repairing. Work is aff orded for every man and boy who desires it, at fair wages. * * * * *


The schooner ROSE MUELLER, 283


tons, was launched from Russell’s yard in Deering Wednesday. She will be commend- ed by Captain Harvey McLean and will be used in a general coasting trade between Portland, New York, Philadelphia and Southern ports.


* * * * * A Quick Trip – The Sullivan Bulletin


says the schooner AUGOLA, Captain Asa S. Dyer, left Sullivan April 15, with granite paving for New York. Discharged cargo there, went to Elizabethport, New Jersey, loaded with machinery and coal for the Sullivan Mining Company, and arrived at Sullivan on May 2, making the round trip in seventeen days.


* * * * * The Portland Company has suffi cient


work on hand to keep their entire force of 500 men employed for some time. Besides the boilers and machinery for the new steam- er STATE OF MAINE, they are busy upon a large contract of locomotives for Northern Pacifi c. Some of these locomotives have been shipped from New York for the Pacifi c coast by sea but the destination of the re- mainder had been changed and twenty-four are to be set up and run on their own wheels to St. Paul, Minnesota. The company has also contracts for engines for the Maine Cen- tral, the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain, the Worcester and Norwich and the Bangor and Katahdin railroads. A delivery of the last of 40 freight cars for the Portland & Roch- ester is now being made, and workmen are engaged on an order for the Rumford Falls and Buckfi eld road. The company is using, of late, iron from the Katahdin mines. These mines are turning out a charcoal iron of great strength, and much of it is used in the com- position of car wheels. The anthracite iron from the same mine is spoken well of, and it is gratifying to know that our own State is producing an article approved so highly by the best mechanics in the country. [Press]


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